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Friday, May 23, 2014

We love rotisserie chickens. They are relatively inexpensive at our local Market Basket grocery store, make an easy dinner, smell great, and the leftovers make great tasting barbecue-flavored chicken salad for the next day's lunch)

Laurie has now made a couple of nice recipes out of this cook book from Southern Living. She's only just begun... there are so many more recipes that look good.

Sunday, May 11, 2014

I've been making these whole wheat chocolate chip cookies for my dad for about forty years. They're his favorites. Since he's one "who doesn't need anything", over the years these cookies have made a great gift for Father's Day or his birthday.

We celebrated his 89th birthday today, so I made a fresh batch early this morning. The ingredients make a very nice variation to the traditional chocolate chip cookie. Of course, there are plenty of chocolate bits, but also peanuts (3/4 cup) and sunflower seeds (1 cup). This combination doesn't appeal to everyone. My kids for example were never fans. All the more for my dad! (And for me, as it makes a big enough batch that the baker can squirrel away a few for his own use...)

I first munched on these during my first year of teaching after graduate school. My roommate, Peter McDermott, had a friend from college who came to visit every once in a while. Peter would bring these cookies to us a brown paper grocery bag. I think he was into recycling, or at least reusing. I got the recipe from him, and the rest has been history.

Monday, April 28, 2014

I am wondering if my new (and first!) smartphone (iPhone 5S) will antiquate my 'ol spiral pad for taking notes and jotting down little reminders. The iPhone is just awesome with its reminders (with dates, times, and alarms) and calendars. I've even downloaded a few other apps looking for something even better than what came on the iPhone. So far I really like the calendar app from "sunrise".

But I just don't have the heart to abandon the 'ol spiral pad and pen. So... for now at least... I will carry both.

[An added bonus: I just went to the dictionary app on my iPhone to look up "antiquated". I wanted to be sure I used it correctly in the first sentence above!]

Hey, I did all of this via my iphrone and the blogger "app". But I wasn't able to change the size or centering of the pictures.

I picked up this frozen vegetable today at trader's. Parisian carrots. We think this is a new product...basically little round carrots. Actually, they are kind of hard to eat. Laurie lanced them with her fork, one at a time. I found I could scoop three up on a fork and gently balanced them on the fork as I brought them to my mouth.